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Date: Wed, 1 Jul 2009 13:19:21 -0300
From: Luiz Capitulino <lcapitulino@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] Allow setting qemu process name
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To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>, qemu-devel@nongnu.org

On Wed, 01 Jul 2009 18:07:50 +0300
Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> wrote:

> On 07/01/2009 04:29 PM, Anthony Liguori wrote:
> > Andi Kleen wrote:
> >> [this is a port of a old KVM userland patch I had; Avi back then 
> >> suggested to submit it to qemu]
> >>
> >> Set the Linux process name to the name argument specified with 
> >> "-name". I find
> >> this useful to see which guests are taking CPU time in top.
> >
> > This is not a bad idea but it has to be optional and non-default.  
> > Maybe a new command line option?
> 
> -name [title=]blah[,process=foobar]

 Just a question: do we have a plan on stopping/avoiding adding new
command-line options?